No. 3,953 in Dutch
werkloze
Unemployed person.
In a sentence
De kans op een baan voor een werkloze is gestegen dit jaar.
The chance of a job for an unemployed person has increased this year.
Here, 'werkloze' is used as a noun referring to an unemployed individual, demonstrating a general application in describing a category of people.
Als werkloze zoekt zij actief naar nieuwe werkgelegenheid.
As an unemployed person, she is actively searching for new employment opportunities.
In this sentence, 'werkloze' functions as an attributive noun, providing a description of the subject’s employment condition.
Hij voelde zich werkloze na zijn ontslag, hoewel hij nog niet officieel geregistreerd was.
He felt unemployed after his dismissal, even though he was not yet officially registered.
Here, 'werkloze' functions as a predicative noun, showing the subject’s self-identification with the state of unemployment.
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